^ 
■ ‘ "f b» t^y having been exposed to the 
rmng cinders, they have been impaired by the 
the museum at portici. 
groupes, nearly as large as life. 
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Beside the 
v^,., ■ ,p — “—‘“J uccii iiujjaucu uy i 
tli*p™f which was intended to protect tlKm : it 
V ‘‘‘S'd n 1 to subject their colouring to 
tl Tel *'^L **’® grouping of the Minotaur, 
% •"' 3 nd of the sitting Orestes, and of the Bac- 
1 ,^^“ their '‘7“e, ^‘^“‘'■able. In their paintings, as well 
th^ of •^‘^ejph-ires, the ancients were influenced by that 
cP of j.^Pheity which distinguishes their 'works from 
n, moderns, and the result is, that in them the 
ana composition are combined,— unity ot 
th t interest. When, again, it is con- 
f Piri „ at the paintings collected in the museum at 
[fftici , 
that* |aken from provincial towns,‘;it must be in- 
coi'r * which were admired in the chief seats 
% ^Pollo**^’° 0 ‘^o‘^ hi excellence with the Laocoon and 
Wolves judgment of the ancients 
lif^ae jjj’ ood their taste is not to be disputed. 
Portici excels all others in ancient 
he "'h'oh, although dearer, more diffi- 
ffon > and more inviting to the rude gra.sp ot 
?ti»-hioii heautiful than marble, forms tlie greater 
ii)j?!''ally he statues. The larger of them had been 
'V-’ and of pieces connected by dove-tail 
i>d|s^'ied iQ{ mese promiscuous fragments have been re- 
>116 * hiaijg o new figures, as in the instance of the single 
Se seq^ ““'jhiur, in the centre of the court-yard ol 
M^jj.*'ant, Those fragments which had escaped fusion. 
to or bruised, by the 
1 ^ lUe-- 
>n 
misfortunes, they have bpen made up 
In 
of*'' of an artist can sometimes delect 
Su!i bolder ®''*dently difterent, the large and the ex- 
j sin- ‘hired ^ogetlier in the same statue. The figures 
Aq § drunken Faun f the sleeping Faun ; 
Tf^jstns Amazon adjusting her robe ; and 
t!? tk ‘host h ^ Claudius, bo'*' ' ■ 
‘han,f®h‘I‘’hable objects 
^bfheqq,“*hripts, found in t 
in the museum at Portici, 
-atn lounu m two chambers of a house at 
^1? ’•hev ’•hough they have been so frequently 
before he seen, to furnish a correct idea or 
mey are devolved, tliey resemble sticks ol 
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